Evidence on Unclaimed Charitable Contributions from the Introduction of Third-Party Information Reporting in Denmark

Christian Gillitzer and Peer Ebbesen Skov
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Christian Gillitzer: University of Michigan
Peer Ebbesen Skov: University of Copenhagen

No 2013-04, EPRU Working Paper Series from Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

Abstract: The introduction of information reporting and pre-population of charitable tax deductions in Denmark in 2008 coincided with a doubling in the number of tax deductions claimed, and a 15 percent rise in the value of claims. We attribute this change to incomplete claiming of eliglbe charitable tax deductions under the prior self-reporting regime: a pre-form randomized audit shows a neglible amount of chaitable overreporting, and we present evidence that there was no change in giving behavior aorund the time of the reform. We estimate that pre-year average amount of forgone tax benefits to be small, but find that many tax-payers repeatedly failed to claim eligble charitable tax deductions under the self-reporting regime. We provide evidence on information frictions from taxpayer behavior due to a notched subsidy scheme.

Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2013-11-13
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